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Yes, I've contacted all three parties, just waiting for some kind of resolution which they claim will be in roughly 2 weeks.
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It's really not that simple though. If you use your account to download the app on your friend's device, the download is still associated with your account, not your friend's. Any subsequent attempts to update, restore, etc. that app will require entering your account credentials.

I can't imagine there are enough people dealing with that hassle to material effect sales.
When these conversations come up, you can assume the above comments are talking about VPN providers outside the US that specifically do not cooperate, particularly in Sweden and Canada. Honeypotting these would be pretty tough and, if proven, the information gleaned from them would be largely off limits to most courts.
So folks who have been wondering since day one after the trial what Samsung was going to do, this seems to be the answer. Hard to prove that a jury tampered with itself, but if they can construct a plausible grudge motive, perhaps the judge will see it there way.
Personally, I think the biggest change with technology and aging is that nursing homes and old age in general are going to get a lot less scary.

I haven't visited a nursing home in a couple of years, but the last time I was there it seemed like a depressing end of life inevitability. The world of the elderly slowly shrinks as they wait for death, as their children have less and less time and will to visit them, as their friends slowly become too infirm to visit them or eventually die, as they themselves become too weak to continue to lead their lives.

But for the younger generations, we have two worlds: "real life", and the internet. As our "real lives" slowly fade out, I think a significant fraction of us can subsist quite happily in our internet lives. Our last five or ten years in the nursing home might almost in their own way be the happiest of our lives. No commitments, no job, no school, just a room and a computer. Wake up when you feel like it, get on the internet. Chat with your friends and family who can't or won't visit you in the real world; make new friends who would never befriend a homebound 78-year-old in the real world. Argue endlessly on internet forums. Play through games you didn't have time for when you still worked and went outside. Maybe contribute to open source software, now that you finally have the time. Who knows -- maybe the 22nd century will run on Open Source Software (written in Java, Python, and other archaic 21st century programming languages) by a bunch of retirees with all the time in the world and 50 years of real programming experience. You may achieve more lasting fame and satisfaction after you retire than before.

Even without any new technology, medicine, or whatever, I think the increasing comfort with technology will already drastically improve the lives of the next generation to grow old.
Tim Berners Lee worked on the World Wide Web, not the internet. The internet was well in place beofre that: usenet, emails, resulting from the work of universities, darpa, etc.
Another article with some details of his case with Seagate

(http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/Legal/News/ViewNews...)
There's a lot of this in the film Swordfish. I actually quite like this bit a lot, it makes me smile. Hacking represented by some kind of floating 3D CAD model. Hugh Jackman also types so fast he physically sweats.

There's a whole list of this type of tech in films & screenshots - http://apcmag.com/top-10-worst-movie-tech-moments.htm
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Yes!! Grade 0.5 all over, and toying with grade 0 or using a razor.

What I want to know though is when will the US have a bald president? I always thought good hair was a pre-requisite.
The difference between Microsoft and Apple is that Microsoft was controlling (or trying to control) the whole ecosystem of PC makers. Apple doesn't want to do this, exactly because they don't want to open their platform for other players the way Microsoft used to do. What they want is to maintain tight control over their closed systems (iOS/MacOS X). And this is not really news, Apple always played by these rules and their customers know how it works.

This way of operating is what most tech commentators don't really understand. I think the beauty of this strategy is that you don't need to have a monopoly to make the most profits. At any time, there will be a majority of the market using other products, but since Apple is optimizing their platform for quality and high profit margin, they will command the leadership in profits (if they continue doing good products that maintain their customers happy, I mean).
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I am also always interested in working for funded startups because I love the atmosphere. CTO/co-founding not out of the question but we would need to work together on a consulting basis for a few months first.

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Should all database use be frowned upon because injections are possible if you don't use them correctly?
"Apple does not have a monopoly in the mobile OS space."

That's not necessarily correct. To determine if they have a monopoly you need to look at the amount of software sold on each platform, not just the number of total devices for each OS.
Paged content gives site owners (most often, content farms) the ability to divide what would be a 10-second read into a 2-minute read by way of forcing users to keep clicking through. This can artificially juke pageview metrics, "engagement" metrics, bounce rates, etc., which means the site can a) sell more ads, b) command a higher premium on ads, or c) both.

Typically, it makes for a horrific reading experience. And I believe it will become bad for business, too, if enough high-quality content sites emerge and offer a far more compelling experience to draw readers away.

There's a hurdle preventing that from happening, however, and the hurdle is that users seem fairly site-agnostic in their content preferences. They consume information without a great deal of thought as to where it came from. And it's easier than ever to receive content now, through social channels, and never even have an inkling as to its original source or site. This liquidity and disposability of content means that content farms still have a big advantage over sites that attempt to make themselves into interesting, repeat-visit destinations.

Now, savvier and more intelligent readers -- the kind who probably frequent this community -- tend to avoid content farms, and probably don't click on articles entitled "10 Totally Weird Diet Tricks That Will Burn Away 10 Lbs in One Day!!!," requiring a 10-page click through to read. But sadly, a lot of people do click those things. A lot.
Because I see this article as the continuation of a discussion about Apple v Google products, here is my macro view of the entire thing:

I honestly don't understand. People act as if Apple is entirely incapable of creating a superior product down the road from Google's. I think that there are obvious competitive advantages to replacing Google's Maps with Apple's Maps in iOS6.

But it seems that everyone just makes the baseline, "duh" assumption that clearly their only possible motive is to screw Google.

Is it not possible that Apple also -actually- believes that version 1 of iOS6 Maps is just the precursor to a product that they will eventually make far superior to Google Maps?? These are not mutually exclusive concepts.

So this hand-wringing about how Apple is screwing users... Call me naive, but I amk completely open to the idea that this is a short-term issue that actually has the possibility to -benefit- users in the long-term, as Apple takes it's lumps and learns what users want in a Maps application, and then eventually deliver things users didn't even know they wanted in a Maps application.

I've really yet to see anyone acknowledge this thought.

edit: You know, I'd at least appreciate a counter-point with the downvotes to my argument. Honestly interested in why I am incorrect. Just saying. shrugs
This actually boosted Minecraft's sales, I think.
I know that I've shown the game to a friend, and just left it there in the non-updating state and they ended up buying the game.
It's how I had the game before I bought it.
C# was made to kill Java as Apple maps were made to Kill Google Maps but they did not prevent Java from being installed, which is what apple is doing. If they want to win by keeping the loyalty of the users they should not cut off all competition but just release a better product than the competition. Apple successed in this in the last years but the more time passes the more I see they are struggling with it, the prefer to kill off any other opportunity, but this will enrage users(at least those who were not brainwashed)
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If I'm on amazon.co.uk, I know they won't sell to me.

I'm in the USA and I have bought things from the other amazons before, from amazon japan and amazon uk.
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I know what you mean. There was another article yesterday about racism in a company (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4603611 Note: The OP itself returns a 404 now!), and AFAIR most of the comments seems to debate and revolve around those two points for a very long time. It would have been hilarious if it wasn't sad. :-/
I'm gonna go with the Bard's. Not for the solution, but for the comments.
You're looking at the wrong market. The problematic market isn't mobile operating systems, it's the distribution of apps to iOS devices. By excluding other app stores from iOS, Apple has created itself a monopoly on the distribution of apps to its existing base of mobile device customers.
I really don't like the idea of "no controller tests at all" as a best practice.

If you're having to mixin Rack::Test::Methods to write your "full-coverage" integration spec, then you're really writing a controller test. It should go in a controller spec without all the horrid mixin hacks.
If you want to argue against facts, please go elsewhere. Mass assignment is widely used in Rails.
I do not understand how this is anti-competitive. Please explain.
Groklaw's take on this http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20121002201632770
I think you're right. Historically apocalyptic ideas have always been popular. Neal Stephenson had a good point when he compared the Apocalypse of John to the singularity.

"I can never get past the structural similarities between the singularity prediction and the apocalypse of St. John the Divine. This is not the place to parse it out, but the key thing they have in common is the idea of a rapture, in which some chosen humans will be taken up and made one with the infinite while others will be left behind. "
http://slashdot.org/story/04/10/20/1518217/neal-stephenson-r...

If Stephenson is right, the idea of the singularity could be considered another modern apocalyptic idea.

I haven't studied it closely but I suspect similar arguments could be made about ancient sightings of gods/angels/demons vs modern encounters with aliens/UFOs.

These things are connected in that they are expressions of universal human characteristics or desires or something.
It really doesn't matter if it owns 25% or 90% of the OS space. Anti-competitive practices are business or government practices that prevent or reduce competition in a market. That is exactly what Apple is doing.
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Well, true. I wonder how many people pass their models straight into a schema-less database without any checks?
Congrats! So when does the team move to Utah? It's not so bad, we don't bite.

I know many developers at Ancestry.com and I hear it's a great place to work. It sounds like you'll be able to continue to operate independently for while but it might be time to brush up on your C# as they are .Net based company. :)
I actually think you're wrong. If someone is willing to keep going, they might be able to salvage something (or even rebuild) after running out of VC money. If the founder(s) just give up, then it's over, but until then, there's still a chance.
"I am a devoted Apple customer"

Not only is this the reason the author percieves the situation as harmful, but avoiding the harm is entirely within the author's control. Just purchase different devices.
The smartest people I know, use tools incredibly well. They make amazing things with Ruby. They make amazing things with Python. They make amazing things in other languages. I'm blessed to know all of them.

None of them would share the opinion in this article, either by the offender, or the "reflector" on the differences.

I don't mean to be harsh. This article taught me nothing. It just spoke about one's interpretation, preference and using such a position to create a difference between us and them.

Pontificating on perceived differences fuels ignorance, intolerance, and more. These kinds of wars of fanatical religious interpretation are neither productive, unifying or helpful.

No language+framework will make you a superhero. Customers and users don't care what the hell we code in. Developers are a little selfish perhaps, when when we focus more on optimizing our own development experience, and hallucinating that there may be some "trickle down" effect to users being delighted, amazed and empowered because we automated yet another thing in our development stack.

No language+framework will make up for one's inability to find and connect with a need that customers have and would pay for, or tolerate being sold over to advertisers.

Most tools are pretty capable, most all have pretty have capable frameworks.
Both examples from the article (maps, Google's iOS app) are examples where the author claims/implies Apple is at fault. So I don't think the title slip is particularly misleading.

Also, who cares who started it? Usually, competition is good for consumers--in this case, if Apple approved this app, competition would mean we have two natural language search apps on iOS. The problem is that Apple is "competing" by hurting their users, not by improving their products. And Google does this too (see: lack of turn-by-turn navigation on iOS), but my sense is they do it less.

As the article does, it's more helpful to focus on how the competition takes place than on casting blame for starting the "competition," which is fundamentally a good thing.
Because this is like a child that cries and scream that he is the best. A competitive behaviour would be releasing an actually decent app and let the users choose what to use.
Just because something is widely used does not mean it is not a security hole. Mass assignment is a security hole, plain and simple- in Rails and anywhere else.
It's not hard to prove the jury tampered with itself if you have multiple accounts of jurors saying that the foreman tampered with the jury. I can't imagine any judge not being furious at the conduct of the foreman in this case.
I know this is the obvious rebuttal that everyone trots out when asked about anticompetitive behavior from Apple. But I'm not sure it's actually true.

I am not a lawyer, but I think you can be brought up on charges of anticompetitive behavior without "having a monopoly".

Can someone with more knowledge in this area comment?
And would you really want the whole train car to know the email you're writing?

In the past I had the same sentiment about phone calls, but what people are willing to talk about on cell phones in public proves me wrong time and again. It certainly isn't ideal but people would probably do it if it meant their cell phone was the size of an ipod nano(I certainly don't see it being the main iPhone but the iPhone nano) or built in to their Google glasses.
It is a shame most of the really good keyboards require so much power that it precludes Bluetooth or mobile usage. I'd love to have a HHKB if it worked wirelessly with both my laptop and tablet.

http://beastwith.in/2012/05/17/usiung-power-hungry-tactile-k...
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I have always been skeptical of any announcement by the Indian government but seeing the video on Techcrunch blew me away. They do not seem as inept and incompetent as they used to be when I was growing up.
Or maybe the basic principle is to try to understand the perspective of the person you're talking to. Don't speak defensively - be open and willing to acknowledge and apologize and correct yourself when a mistake you make is pointed out to you, rather than retreating into racial anxiety.

Progressive white people too frequently have a fear of saying the wrong thing because they're insecure with their racial views. Read more, gain perspective, learn how much you don't know about the experience of minorities, and then approach conversations with people of color with a deferential attitude.

Maybe that's too much work, but it's the price of tending to a multicultural society that is growing out of the ashes of a monocultural one and I think it's worth it.
How does that relate to the concept of anti-competitiveness? I do not see the connection.
This is a great first step, but it's going to be a long, hard battle from here on out. Any American jury is going to be biased against a foreign company when it comes to charges like this, one of the reasons why I feel that it should have been tried by judges, particularly considering the complex and technical nature of the subject matter.
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There's an app on the iOS cydia store that allows you to have any app from the App Store for free. I have it on my phone and use it very very rarely (when I'm not sure if a £9 app will do what I need it to) - I still buy most of my apps and honour the system.
FWIW, when I was figuring out Bitcoin I avoided the paper at first (due to logic similar to yours) but eventually read it because there was a lot of noise in the wiki, etc (may have changed). I found it surprisingly accessible; more so than the vast majority of academic papers I've come across (I have most of an EE degree but little to no formal CS training).
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Well you kind of justified my point:

The iPhone is a crappy phone with crappy battery life and has a crappy camera. None of this is desirable nor unique (O2 XDA kind of nailed all of these in 2002).

Apple however made it successful through marketing.

And don't mention usable mapping after the last week or so :)
Is this a parody? I'm genuinely having trouble discerning.
After all these years purchasing only iDevices, it can actually be pretty difficult for many of these people (particularly journalists) to even envision purchasing and using a non-Apple device. They've just been drinking the Kool-aid for far too long.
Eventual hypothetical superiority in the future doesn't help user experience in the present. Why not allow people to choose which app they want to use?
The problem with this approach is later on when the user wants things which don't fit in with the Drupal system, modifications can be a real pain, and the site can become more and more brittle over time. Let's take another real-world example:

1. The client wants a google map of all their content
2. The client wants the content displayed elsewhere too
3. The client wants to filter the content by type
4. The client wants a tag cloud
5. The client gets what they want quickly by using drupal and is happy.
...
99. The client wants to change the google maps module to act slightly differently, but this turns out to be very difficult, and their developer takes days to make very simple changes.
100. The client is complaining that their website is slow because it loads over 200 drupal modules, but they need them all.
101. Some code is the db, and some on disk, which makes it very difficult to trace execution.
102. The client can no longer update their drupal as half of their modules are no longer maintained, and they're at the mercy of the module developers to do so, this causes problems using new modules which expect a newer drupal.
103. New developers can't get up to speed because the code-base is so convoluted and the database contains over 200 tables with a byzantine structure caused by drupal's over-abstraction of content types - the client runs through a series of several drupal developers and bleeds money with no significant changes to their site and lots of bugs left unfixed.
...
200. The client gives up and starts again with a site rewrite using another framework, and curses the day they were introduced to drupal.

The up-front development cost may sometimes be lower with drupal (though for many sites I would dispute that, most frameworks make it a matter of minutes or at most hours work to add a tag cloud for example, or add a map, with the advantage that you don't have to use a module to do it), but unless you are very careful and stick with one developer, the huge technical debt you're taking on by using it doesn't justify that. The fact that the developers ever thought it was a good idea to store code and views in the db is a huge red flag, and is a huge temptation to some developers and/or clients to produce a huge complicated, unmaintainable mess. Even if you try to control this it doesn't ledn itself easily to separation of concerns.

I'm sure it's quite possible to produce clean websites with drupal and keep them under control long term, but it's not the pattern of the sites I've seen, and I don't think it really gives you so much more in the longer term over developing in simpler frameworks which don't try to prescribe as closely how the content is structured.
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what about the kinesis advantage?
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So the jury got some instructions on how it works and then they got a test which they couldn't fail.
They should have been examined on prior art cases.

OR of course no jury but judges instead.
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Same here. It looks like a loader plus some extensions that offer routing, and history/back/forward management plus a lot of conventions.

A comparison of what it offers compared to at least a couple of the major libraries offering those things would've been useful...
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Elevation Partners Managing Director Roger McNamee on Apple lately:

Apple is "already doing what you'd expect a dumb monopolist to do."

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During the search breakfast back in early August, Google did say that they'd submitted the app. Here's a CNET article that covered the search breakfast: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57489395-93/google-exposes-... The relevant part is "The update to the Google Search app has been submitted to Apple, and Google expects it to be approved in the next few days, Huffman said."

If anyone wants to watch Scott Huffman's demo of natural language voice search from the search breakfast, the relevant section of the video is on the web: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a2VmxqFg8A#t=10m43s
Which haven't stopped courts imposing huge fines on filesharers...
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Yeah, now that I think about it, this is probably the best way to go about doing this since I did spend a fair amount of my time building the website.